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Scientists have finally unravelled the decade-long mystery behind the devastating epidemic that has killed more than five billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America. The breakthrough ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

Love is on the brain for Melissa Torres. She is part of the team working to save the beautiful, but critically endangered, sunflower sea star. “Gorgeous, purple, brown, pink, the sea stars are so ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often known as starfish – ...

The Sequoia Park Zoo’s 15th Conservation Lecture Series continues Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. in the zoo’s Flamingo Room at 3414 W St. in Eureka. Cal Poly Humboldt faculty members David Sinn, Rafael Cuevas ...

Ashley Kidd signed onto the Zoom call a few minutes late, giddily explaining that 12 minutes ago there was an unexpected development in a planned spawn of critically endangered starfish. Kidd, ...

For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than ...

Riah Evin, a biologist at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, propagates endangered Sunflower Sea Stars on Nov. 20 in San Francisco. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) For the last ...